Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when tak...e the air I must.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consulta...tion. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I--I have a tendency to ... if I get too mellow, I--I ripen and then rot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liber...ty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue--the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word, that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Gr...andparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creat...ion, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those of us who are in this world to educate--to care for--young children have a special calling: a calling that has very little t...o do with the collection of expensive possessions but has a lot to do with the worth inside of heads and hearts. In fact, that's our domain: the heads and hearts of the next generation, the thoughts and feelings of the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and to share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pai...n, the intense, often unmitigating pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk through the rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »